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Studiometry 10 Feature Spotlight: Invoice Item Display Improvements

One of the most important correspondences that you have with clients is your invoices. They need to present vital information in a way that is both inviting and informative. Studiometry already has very powerful, completely customizable invoice templates that let you design and brand your invoices to exact specifications. Studiometry 10 adds several powerful features to help organize and present the work and expenses within your invoices.

Merge Items on your Invoices

New to Studiometry 10 is the ability to merge items on your invoices. Now, when creating your invoices, you can easily select two or more work/expense items and click the Merge button to have the items appear on the invoice as one combined item. Studiometry will calculate the total hours, quantity, and amount for you, and simply display one line item on the generated invoice.

The merged items can be ordered, split, and organized however you’d like, giving you total flexibility with exactly how your items appear on the invoice.

Here’s an example of an invoice with non-merged work items. As you can see, there are two entries for mileage, and three separate entries for design work.

Non-merged Work List


On an invoice, this will be presented showing every single line, which can be confusing for your clients to see multiple separate lines for similar items.

Non-merged Generated Invoice


But with the new merging features, you can choose to combine specific items when creating the invoice. The items will still remain separate in your Studiometry database, and be exactly the same as before, but on the invoice itself they will appear merged. Here’s a quick example of a merged item list:

Merged Work List


As you can see, the mileage entries have been merged together, with the combined subtotal shown. The same is true for the selected Design Work entries. When the invoice is generated, you can see a much clearer and simpler idea of what is included in the invoice:

Merged Generated Invoice


This lets you present a simpler and easier to understand invoice, while maintaining the integrity of your data within Studiometry.

Control Your Display Defaults for Category Types

Merging items is a great new feature, but what if there’s a category type that you want to always show as a combined amount? What if you always want your hourly work types to be shown as a combined subtotals, but you want your expenses to be listed out individually? Manually merging items on every invoice could become tedious very quickly.

That’s why we’ve added very powerful new controls to Studiometry 10 that let you set the display mode for each Debt Category type on a per-template basis. In Studiometry’s visual template editor Template Info window, you can now choose the display mode for every work type within your Studiometry database:

As you can see above, for each Debt Category you have the option to include it in the “Debt Rows”, and a separate option to include it in your “Category rows”.  A quick reminder: your Debt Rows will show the work/expense items on the invoice, while the Category Rows will show combined amounts for each category type on the invoice.

So if you want your hourly work types to be subtotaled without showing their individual work items, just uncheck the “Include in Debt Rows”, and be sure to check “Include in Category Rows”.

You can design both your Debt Rows and your Category Rows to display however you’d like, and using the new Combo Data Rows feature, you can even have them display in-line with each other.

These two new features can even be used together. All of your merged work items will appear in the Debt Rows, so you can merge certain items within your Debt Rows and automatically combine certain categories within the Category Rows.

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Studiometry 10 will be released in September 2012. Discounted upgrades will be available from all previous versions, new licenses start at $199.95 USD.

Buy Studiometry (free upgrade to 10.x for purchases after July 1st):
http://www.oranged.net/store

 







Studiometry 10 Feature Spotlight: Week Timesheet

When it comes to tracking and entering your hours, Timesheets are the quickest way to add large amounts of work. If you forget to bill for a project, or even just one hour of work, you’re losing money.

A great new feature for Studiometry 10 is the addition of Weekly Timesheets. This new interface shows you the amount of work you’ve done in the week, making it easier to visually realize and remember the work you’ve entered. You can quickly modify daily hours while Studiometry does all of the filing and sorting for you in the background. You simply select a Project and Work Type, and then Studiometry will present you with a display of the amount of work done, per day, for that Project.

Week Timesheet Entry


Once you’re done, Studiometry will create, modify, or remove (with your permission, of course) work items based on your entered hourly amounts per day. If you want to go back later to make changes to the work week, Studiometry will present you with your current amounts, and intuitively show the amounts you’ve increased (green) or decreased (red):

Modifying Worked Hours


The interface lets you modify any number of projects simultaneously. You can “populate” the list by either manually selecting specific Project’s, or by using the Smart Populate feature. This feature lets you populate the list with either your Active Projects and Types for the week, or with a specific Group or Smart Group of Projects:

Auto-Populate the Week Timesheet with Projects


Once you select Populate, the Week Timesheet window will automatically add rows and select work types based on your selection, letting you can quickly add or modify your worked amounts.

This new feature is a great way to help organize, view, and enter your company’s worked hours. Logging and entering hours can be a tedious task. The new Week Timesheet makes it a breeze.

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Studiometry 10 will be released in September 2012. Discounted upgrades will be available from all previous versions, new licenses start at $199.95 USD.

Buy Studiometry (free upgrade to 10.x for purchases after July 1st):
http://www.oranged.net/store

 







Studiometry 10 Beta Signups Open

If you haven’t already, you can sign up for the Studiometry 10 Beta. This will give you early access to Studiometry 10 and let you test and try the new features in the upcoming release. More information, as well as sign up instructions are available on our Support site here:

http://support.oranged.net/entries/21818032

 







Studiometry 9 Feature Spotlight: Logs & Email Integration

Studiometry 9 has a plethora of new CRM features that help you track and organize your emails, phone calls, and correspondences. At the heart of these new capabilities are the new Log item type in Studiometry, as well as new Email Integration features.

Logs
Logs help you save and organize any emails, phone calls, or correspondences related to your clients and projects. The great part about logs is that they can be linked to nearly anything in Studiometry, such as projects or employees. You can later reference and filter the logs based on their links to focus on correspondences for individual items. Having the ability to quickly view and filter a list of all emails and phone calls related to a specific project can be a powerful tool, and will easily increase your organization and ability to reference client requests.

Email Integration
One of our most frequently requested features ever has been the ability to integrate with, and grab emails from certain mail programs. Great news! Studiometry 9 can integrate with several desktop mail applications (Apple Mail, Microsoft Entourage & Outlook for Mac) and we will be adding support for many others in the future.

How does this actually help? Once you turn on mail integration, whenever you receive a relevant email Studiometry will automatically import it as a log and link it to your clients and projects. It will even make a link back to open the original email in Apple Mail. Having all of this pertinent information inside of Studiometry AND linked to your Studiometry data gives you unprecedented capabilities for following your project correspondences.

Without mail integration, an email would have to be pasted as text into the project notes, or searched for within your mail program whenever you wanted to reference it. Studiometry 9 has the built-in functionality to remove these cumbersome steps from your CRM workflow.

This is all included in the price of the program and does not require the purchase of any separate modules or plug-ins.

Better Email Controls
Studiometry 9 also has plenty of great new features for controlling your outgoing emails:

  • You can now setup an unlimited number of default Cc and Bcc addresses for any outgoing emails from the program.
  • You can also create and customize the formats for email subject and content when sending invoices and reports. Easily add your company name, the client’s name, due amounts, and several other variables directly to the text of the email automatically. This can even be used to set up direct payment links within the email.
  • Outgoing emails can be automatically captured as logs and linked to corresponding items. This is an incredibly useful too for referencing within Studiometry when invoices were actually sent, for example.
  • We’ve also strengthened the controls for selecting your outgoing email client. The setting is used throughout the program for all emails.
  • We’ve added the ability to send emails through Postbox, a popular email client.

Buy Studiometry 9.x:
http://www.oranged.net/store

Download Studiometry 9.x:
http://www.oranged.net/studiometry/download

Full Version History:
http://www.oranged.net/studiometry/versionhistory

Studiometry 9 is available immediately. Upgrades from 8.x are $59.95 USD per license, and new licenses are $199.95.

 







Studiometry Touch iPad Calendar Preview

A large part of the work we’ve been doing for Studiometry Touch on the iPad is related to a complete rewrite of the calendar to take full advantage of the larger screen. Here’s a quick sneak peak at the calendar in the upcoming universal version of Studiometry Touch. We expect to submit the app to Apple by the end of the week barring anything unexpected that comes up in the final stages of testing.

Without further adieu:
Popovers, multiple view modes, and more.